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The Almost Astronaut
From: Joe Richman
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The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.

  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 16:36
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXDU, WHRV, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 11
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP, KXCV, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WFHB and more


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps Griot: Raynita Snipes Johnson and Gene Robinson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: United States Army veteran Maceo Snipes. He served in World War II, and was murdered shortly after returning home from service., Credit: Courtest of Raynita Snipes Johnson.
Raynita Snipes Johnson remembers her great-uncle, US Army veteran Maceo Snipes, a Black man lynched for voting in 1946.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
George Floyd: A Year Later
From: Ampers
Series: Racial Reckoning: The Arc of Justice
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On May 25, 2020, George Floyd took his last labored breaths, while Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck. What happened that n...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: May 22, 2021
  • Length: 22:00
  • Purchases: 1
GN_3.33_National Freedom Day
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
February 1st is National Freedom Day, made into a holiday due to one man's efforts.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
A Conversation with Charles Person
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, what Charles Person faced during the Civil Rights Movement was far worse than his time as a Marine in Vietnam.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:26:58
A Conversation with JoAnne Blackmon Bland
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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Only 11 years old on Bloody Sunday, JoAnne faced the charging horses and the swinging batons of the state troopers.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:06:54
A Conversation with Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:23:34
A Conversation with Ruby Bridges
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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The little girl who went to school with federal marshals as escorts has something to say about what she went through and what we are going through ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:02:02
Assignment: Memphis
From: Drew Darling
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The plot that killed the dream. The Who, What, Where, How and Why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated.

Bought by WLPR and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bend, Oregon resident remembers Freedom Summer
From: Hillary Borrud
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This week marks 50 years since the civil rights movement pushed its way onto the national political stage, at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2014
  • Length: 08:30
MLK: Three Landmark Speeches
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Three key speeches of American civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Martin Luther King Junior are excerpted and commented on by two lea...

Bought by KALW, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 33
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The 1963 March on Washington
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the March on Washington, August 28th, 1963, Credit: National Archives
August 28th marks the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech in front of the Lincoln memorial in Washington, D.C., wh...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WUFT, WESM 91.3 FM, WCSU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Minnesota 1963 Marchers Reflect on 50th Anniversary of March on Washington
From: Susan Gray
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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" sp...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 22:10
  • Purchases: 1
William Anderson
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement
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Americus, Ga., native Dr. William Anderson founded the Albany Movement in Georgia in 1961 in an effort to forge a broad-based coalition for change....

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, 90.5 WESA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVAS and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 6
Robert Hayling
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement
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Dentist Robert Hayling has been hailed as the "father" of the Saint Augustine, Fla., civil rights movement. The NAACP recruited Hayling in the earl...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVAS, and WEAA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 5
Joyce Ann Ladner and Dorie Ann Ladner
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement
Caption: Joyce Ann (left) and Dorie Ann Ladner
As two sisters from Mississippi—Dorie Ann and Joyce Ann Ladner—worked to prepare for the March on Washington in 1963, they realized there was a far...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSKA, KFAI Minneapolis, 90.5 WESA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 7
Gwendolyn Simmons
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement
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With themes of civil resistance, nonviolent protests, boycotts and voting rights at the helm of the Civil Rights Movement, there was another consta...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVAS and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 6
Esther Terry
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement
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Much of the credit for the growth of the Civil Rights Movement in the South rightly went to college students from the nation's HBCUs. Dr. Esther Te...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVAS, and WEAA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 5
Courtland Cox
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement
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As a Howard University student, Courtland Cox served on the steering committee for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom as a represent...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVAS, KUT and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 7
David and Toko Ackerman
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement
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The husband and wife team of David and Toko Ackerman represented the diversity of the Civil Rights Movement. David, a self-proclaimed product of a ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, 90.5 WESA, WVAS and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 7
Purcell Conway
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement
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Young people played a key role in the civil rights movement. For some, their involvement came as an objection to their parents’ various fears. For...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, WVAS, PRX Remix, WTJU and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 9